Be VEGAN, Make PEACE

GOOD FOR YOU, GOOD FOR THE ANIMALS, GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

How Vegan is the Solution to Climate Change

Eating veg is one of the most important and effective actions you can take to help stop global warming, conserve natural resources, prevent water and air pollution, and save many, perhaps countless, species from extinction.

According to Dr. David Brubaker, PhD, at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for a Livable Future, “The way that we breed animals for food is a threat to the planet. It pollutes our environment while consuming huge amounts of water, grain, petroleum, pesticides and drugs. The results are disastrous.”

As the Sierra Club put it in their 2002 report on animal factories “violations by the meat industry add up to a rap sheet longer than War and Peace.”

BE VEGAN, MAKE PEACE

Every Choice we make and every bite we take affects Mother Nature

How Vegan is the Solution to Climate Change

Did you know that by adopting a vegan diet, you are saving the lives of both humans and animals?

One in six human beings suffer from hunger and malnutrition; some 25,000 people die per day as a direct result of these conditions, or related consequences – more than at any other time in history. Rising food prices have plunged an additional 75 million people below the hunger threshold, bringing the estimated number of undernourished people worldwide to 923 million in 2007.

But are we really short of food? 1/3 of the world’s cereal harvest and over 90% of soya is used for animal feed, despite inherent inefficiencies. The grain currently fed to livestock is enough to feed 2 billion people.

By choosing vegan, each year we can:

Feed 5 times more people

Save 1 billion starving people

Save 55 billion animals worldwide

Stop world hunger

Stop animal cruelty

Conserve clean water

Consume less fossil fuels

Save the rainforest

Reduce pollution

Maintain cleaner air

Stop global warming

For more information
on the benefit of a vegan diet,
please read ourVeg Starter Guide